THE WONDERING MIND OF THE WRITER

Initially I was going to entitle this piece ‘The Wandering Mind of the Writer’. The reason being that very often story ideas come to me when I least expect them, when my thoughts have no specific purpose, when they are ‘free range’. However, I decided to change wandering to wondering. I’ll tell you why.

I can’t speak for my colleagues, but this writer’s mind uses two types of wonder to process the world around me. The first form of wonder is the amazement I see and record in my brain. The second type is when I wonder ‘what if’ when I contemplate a science fiction or horror story. Both types are filed away in my cerebral cortex until, sometimes quite unexpectedly; these thoughts come together in a story. Those are the fun moments. Then the real work begins, putting those thoughts into words.

The reason I want to share this is that my blog is a writer’s blog, yet sometimes the subject matter may seem ‘off topic’. But for a writer taking in the world of wonder surrounding him, is there really an ‘off topic’?

All that I see and experience is stored away in the depths of my mind. Then, when the time is right, make their way in odd combinations to the surface and from there to the tip of my pen.